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Splitting colors into three levels (palette, functional, and component) can help you be more adaptive to changes and new requirements while working on a project. In this article, Artur Basak introduces a modern approach on how to set up CSS Custom Properties that respond to the application colors. The idea of dividing colors into three levels can be quite useful: a palette (or scheme), functional
We’re talking about Serverless architectures. What does that mean, and how does it differ from how we might build sites currently? Drew McLellan talks to Chris Coyier to find out.
Pretty neat little website from Joan Perals, inspired by stuff like Lynn's A Single Div. With multiple hard-stop background-image gradients, you don't need
Six creators share the inspiration behind their files
Some more CSS comics
An anecdotal argument for contributing and using open source
A fact of life for building an internet service is that, sooner or later, bad actors are going to come along and try to abuse the system. Slack is no exception — spammers try to use our invite function as a way to send out spam emails. Having built up the infrastructure to easily deploy…
You can get by in NodeJS without properly handling errors but due to the asynchronous nature of NodeJS, improper handling or errors can cause you pain soon enough. This article is for JavaScript and NodeJS developers who want to improve error-handling in their applications. Kelvin Omereshone explains the `error` class pattern and how to use it for a better, more efficient way of handling errors ac
An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
Today we are announcing Argo Tunnel RDP Bastion mode, a simpler way to protect RDP connections at scale. By functioning as a jump-host, cloudflared can reside on a single node in your network and proxy requests to any internal server, eliminating deployment headaches.
You can make a typical CSS border dashed or dotted. For example:
When using percentage values in CSS like this...
Every website that’s made me oooo and aaahhh lately has been of a special kind; they’re written and designed like essays. There’s an argument, a playfulness
Tomáš Janoušek:
Are you leading teams in a remote world? We are wrapping up our remote working series with some final tips on leading remote and distributed teams. We hope our teams have helped while we collectively work remotely from around the world.
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
Today, we are sharing details about Pysa, an open source static analysis tool we’ve built to detect and prevent security and privacy issues in Python code. Last year, we shared how we built Zoncolan, a static analysis tool that helps us analyze more than 100 million lines of Hack code and has helped engineers prevent […]
This is the third and final part of the tutorial in which we’ll create the wheels (rims and tires), and add all the final touches (including the racing decals on the car’s body).
Let's say you have a double heading situation going on. A little one on top of a big one. It comes up, I dunno, a billion times a day, I'd say. What HTML do
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock the last several years (and let’s face it, hiding under a rock sometimes feels like the right thing to do), you’ve
From Nicholas Zakas' newsletter, on how he avoids JavaScript fatigue:
GitHub provides the security capabilities to achieve Level 1 of the OWASP DevSecOps Maturity Model. In this post, we explore the principles of DSOMM Level 1 and how you can implement secret scanning, SCA, SAST and DAST using native tooling on GitHub.
